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Seven designers win BFW 2018 awards

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THE award-winning designers posing after BFW 2018 at Cove 55, Santubong in Kuching.
THE award-winning designers posing after BFW 2018 at Cove 55, Santubong in Kuching.

KUCHING: The Borneo Fashion Week (BFW) 2018 came to an end with the recognition of five designers and two runway models for exceptional talent in the fashion industry at Cove 55 in Santubong here on Sunday. The three-day event featured fashion extravaganza of runway shows and an exhibition with a line-up of over 30 fashion designers from West and East Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Iran. Lining up the entrance to welcome guests were models in traditional attire of Dayak, Iban and Bidayuh heritage – an embodiment of the fashion week’s primary aspiration of ‘bringing Borneo to the world’.

The spotlight at BFW 2018 were the exquisite heritage-inspired fashion, craft and lifestyle brands, with a particular mention on 16 Borneo designers and exhibitors, showcased at the exhibition platform.

Meanwhile, the night’s biggest highlight was the presentation of seven coveted awards, namely BFW Designer in the Spotlight 2018, BFW Model of the Year – Male, BFW Model of the Year – Female, BFW Emerging Borneo Designer of the Year 2018, two BFW Most Promising Designer of The Year 2018 awards and BFW Designer of the Year 2018.

Najla Shoes won BFW Designer in the Spotlight 2018, Zachary Puung Li Xin (BFW Model of the Year – Male), Vanizha Vasantha Nathan (BFW Model of the Year – Female), Kumang & Co (BFW Emerging Borneo Designer of the Year 2018), and Designer of the Year 2018 went to Rozie Khan Couture. In addition, BFW in partnership with Limkokwing University of Creative Technology also awarded two exclusive scholarships to up and coming ready-to-wear (RTW) designers at this year’s fashion week. The Diploma and Degree scholarships in fashion design worth more than RM100,000 were awarded to two deserving designers under BFW’s Most Promising Designer of The Year 2018 category.

The two deserving designers were JK Homme and Michael Ooi, who received Limkokwing Fashion Design Diploma Scholarship and Limkokwing Fashion Design Degree Scholarship respectively. On the designers’ creations, they were judged by a panel of fashion specialists comprising Limkokwing University Vice President of Content, Datin Nikki Lugun, Award Winning Ex-Fashion Editor, Founder and Advisor of Bumiputra Designers Association, Mahani Awang, and UNIMAS fashion academic, Asrul Asshadi Mohamad Morni.

Judging criteria were based on construction techniques, details, stitchings as well as design innovation. BFW 2018 was unveiled at a grand gala dinner which was graced by the wife of State Governor, Toh Puan Ragad Kurdi Taib and Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth & Sports Sarawak, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah at Pullman Hotel, Kuching on Friday (7 September 2018).

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